The Forestport Breaks

A Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy along the Black River Canal

Michael Doyle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2004
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-0772-4 (ISBN)

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The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and the politically connected canal contractors were flush once more. It was all very convenient until Governor Theodore Roosevelt's administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York. In The Forestport Breaks, Michael Doyle illuminates a fresh and fascinating chapter in the colorful history of the Erie Canal. This is the canal's shadowy side, a world of political rot and plotting men, and it extended well beyond one rough and tumble town. The Forestport breaks marked the only time New York officials charged men with conspiring to destroy canal property, but they were also illustrative of the widespread rascality surrounding the canal. For Doyle, there is a story with a personal dimension behind the drama of the canal's historical events. As he uncovered the rise and fall of Forestport, he was also discovering that the trail of culpability led to members in his own family tree.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2004
Zusatzinfo	12 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8156-0772-5 / 0815607725
ISBN-13	978-0-8156-0772-4 / 9780815607724
Zustand	Neuware